Giving To The Poor Quotes:

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Mother, Giving, Care, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

- John the Apostle

topic: Biblical, Tongue, Scripture, Biblical Truth, Caring For The Poor

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

- Criss Jami

topic: Giving, Matter, Poor, Giving To Others, Giving To The Poor

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Norman MacEwen

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Giving, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

No one has ever become poor by giving.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational, Morning, Kindness, Giving Love, Charitable

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Success, Helping Others, Hunger And Poverty, Hunger Poverty

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

- C. S. Lewis

source: C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

topic: Christian, Giving, Essentials, Christian Morality, Giving To The Poor

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

- George Eliot

topic: Luxury, Giving, Charity, Philanthropic, Philanthropy Giving

The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange.

- Thiruvalluvar

topic: Giving, Poor, Giving To The Poor

Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.

- Peter Singer

source: Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.21, Pan Macmillan

topic: Mean, Giving, Justice, Charity And Giving, Giving To The Poor

Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance. So Ambrosius says, and it is also to be found in the Decretum Gratiani: The bread which you withhold belongs to the hungry: the clothing you shut away, to the naked: and the money you bury in the earth is the redemption and freedom of the penniless.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Men, Redemption, Charity, Sustenance, Jewish Community

It's more blessed to give than to receive -- especially kittens.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Blessed, Giving, Kitten, Jesus Inspirational, Help The Poor

Since much wealth too often proves a snare and an incumbrance in the Christian's race, let him lighten the weight by 'dispersing abroad and giving to the poor'; whereby he will both soften the pilgrimage of his fellow travelers, and speed his own way the faster.

- Augustus Toplady

topic: Christian, Race, Giving, Fellow Travelers, Giving To The Poor